Questions, I hear, are illuminating. So, illuminate me!
(1) This one from my friend M____. If anti-choicers believe that life begins at conception, why do they not celebrate conception day? I theorized that this was do to the ick factor of thinking about one's conception. Other thoughts?
(2) File this one under "Good Ideas for Essays I Will Never Have the Chance to Write."
Sara Gran and Megan Abbott on Freud on the word 'Uncanny':
Freud wrote about this discomfort at remembering in his 1919 essay "The Uncanny." He focused on the unusal etymology of the German words heimlich and unheimlich, both of which carry at least two seemingly contradictory meanings: of homely and familiar, but also of concealed, secret, kept from sight. The uncanny sensation derives from encountering not what is strange or distant from our experience, but rather its opposite--that which is close to home, familiar, intimate, but has been rendered unfamiliar through repression[.]
I've long wondered why Uncanny X-Men got the adjective uncanny. How are they familiar? Is this the appeal to the teens who picked up this book--that the familiarity of undergoing metamorphoses we didn't understand was obscured by the lens of Superhero genre? Other thoughts? And note to self: Read Freud's "The Uncanny."
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